The Owl and the Nightingale: A New Verse Translation

by Simon Armitage

Book Overview

From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of a spirited and humorous medieval English poem

The Owl and the Nightingale, one of the earliest literary works in Middle English, is a lively, anonymous comic poem about two birds who embark on a war of words in a wood, with a nearby poet reporting their argument in rhyming couplets, line by line and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691202168
• ISBN13: 9780691202167
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"